PA Lamb Farm

PA Lamb Farm "Growing quality lambs, diligent hands, and grateful hearts."

08/23/2026

As promised, regarding breeding stock.

To follow up, text, call, or e-mail me: 724.584.8190, [email protected].

PA Lamb Farm
Mansfield, PA

"Growing quality lambs, diligent hands, and grateful hearts"

08/14/2026

Breeding stock available!

As several are aware privately, on Saturday 8/22/26, we plan to begin posting photos & videos, here to our Facebook feed, of available sets of ewe lambs.

We select for good conformation, sound udders and hooves, calm dispositions, and clean-shedding maternal stock, that can make a living outdoor year-round (w/ hay in winter) on our low-quality unimproved pastures. Because we tag at birth, we know who was born to whom, and are able to select accordingly.

Yesterday evening we received this unsolicited feedback from a customer who had purchased ewe lambs and a ram from us:

"Good evening Nathan! How is the shepherding going in the north?

I just wanted to let you know that your genetics can really perform on grass. I just sold a group of mostly ewe lambs at New Holland. There were a couple single ewe lambs that hit 90 lbs in just under 6 months.

It feels like such a blessing in contrast to the parasite challenges and poor growth my lambs had the past 2 years.

Thanks again for the effort you put into providing me with a flock of great sheep." [-G.K. in Lancaster County, PA]

Our initial offerings will come from the subset of our May 2026 lamb crop in this video--

PA Lamb Farm
Mansfield, PA

"Growing quality lambs, diligent hands, and grateful hearts"

08/06/2026

With our genetics and our type of grazing program, the PA Lamb Farm flock does not struggle against clinical barberpole worm infections.

However, a small proportion of our lambs do develop clinical meningeal worm infections.

Meningeal worm (aka "brain worm" and "deer worm") is carried and spread by a very high proportion of white tailed deer, with snails and slugs as intermediate hosts. The below-linked Cornell page further explains that process.

Eastern US deer populations are really a bit out of balance, with quite a few negative repercussions (e.g. CWD, over-browsing of forest understory, deer ticks, meningeal worm, and roadway peril), so we appreciate those of you who help thin them out for the good of humans, forest regrowth, and the deer herd itself!

This is the fifth lamb we have pulled within the past week, showing a classic M-worm symptom of weakness/instability in a rear leg. We did not initially spot her as the animals moved into a contiguous paddock, and it is likely that her gait was initially fairly normal. But after moving to the new paddock, perhaps as that movement inflamed the nerve or its sheath(?), one of her rear legs quit functioning properly.

On a hopeful note, we have not seen any ewes showing symptoms this year, and routinely see far fewer ewes with clinical M-worm symptoms than lambs. This may support a theory that sheep [in humid areas with high deer populations] may build immunity to M-worm through prior sub-clinical infections.

This Cornell webpage contains helpful resources for dealing with Meningeal Worm: https://blogs.cornell.edu/smallruminantparasites/chemical-treatment-protocols/

Always be careful about withdrawal periods before sending treated lambs to market!

PA Lamb Farm
Mansfield, PA

"Growing quality lambs, diligent hands, and grateful hearts"

Let us open our eyes, and take a look at the axiom, "farmers are price takers." This much is true: We (farmers) often d...
07/24/2026

Let us open our eyes, and take a look at the axiom, "farmers are price takers."

This much is true: We (farmers) often do not set the price of our product, but receive whatever value the market determines our product is worth on some day.

BUT: in free markets, what business is *not* limited to the value that the market determines its product is worth in that time and place? Supply and demand govern pricing of retail goods, too!

Like every other business in a free society, farmers get to choose what to produce and where to produce it, and when, how, and where to market it.

The "price-taker" axiom is overused, to the point of claiming some kind of victim-hood. That is not healthy.

What is a better mentality?

Count it as a blessing that farming, like any business, is hard. That is a symptom of ample supply, strong competition, and available resources for the many. We are blessed!

Analyze your unique opportunities in this blessed world of abundance, and then focus on one, and put in the work with an aim to be the best in that space.

Your efforts can be a part of making the world even better for the many, not just as a result of the goods you supply, but also through the character you build in so doing.

Feel free to [thoughtfully] agree and/or make counterarguments in the comments. It is healthy to challenge thoughts with the intent of thoroughly vetting them from every angle!

PA Lamb Farm
Mansfield, PA

"Growing quality lambs, diligent hands, and grateful hearts"

Photo: Observing healthy red blood cell counts via eye membranes on a yearling ram, PA Lamb Farm, 2026.07.08

The little flock ascends the narrow path. He says, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the...
07/06/2026

The little flock ascends the narrow path.

He says, “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” -Matt 7:13-14 (NKJV)

Though they be few, they do have innumerable companions along the way. (See Genesis 15:5, Revelation 7:9ff)

Photo: PA Lamb Farm flock move in the Pennsylvania Wilds region on 2026.07.06

PA Lamb Farm
Mansfield, PA 16933

“Growing quality lambs, diligent hands, and grateful hearts”

06/25/2026

Thanks in no small part to your advice, our May-born lambs have started increasingly eating creep feed from our custom mobile feeder.

Lambs are approaching our intake target of 0.25 #/hd/day.

We are wanting to limit intake to that 0.25 #/day rate, so I am contemplating bumping salt content up from 0.5% to 2%, with an eventual target of 4%**. I need to order the next batch tomorrow, so we appreciate your thoughts in the comments below!! Your experience feeding is the best substitute for our lack thereof.

Speaking of experience, keeping 100 # of corn/SBM/oat/molasses mix within our nomadic flock invites a certain kind of threat we had not anticipated---

See photo in comments-- what creature is digging up sod where our feeder had sat two days prior?

PA Lamb Farm
Mansfield, PA

"Growing quality lambs, diligent hands, and grateful hearts"
2026.06.24

**NOTE: Our proposed salt (intake limiter) targets were corrected shortly after posting.

06/24/2026

"It's a walk in the park, you know, with a few bottomless trenches, of course"

Daily paddock shifts provide opportunities to spot any underfed or sick animals, which will generally lag near the back. The opportunity is even better when the flock is invited to cross a minor obstacle.

From their vantage point, the weeds obscure the bottom of this trench. Then a few cross, some even fall in, and the bottom is not so deep after all.

They spur themselves and each-other across for the benefit of fresh pasture beyond, without any pushing required.

Everyone looks good at the moment.

PA Lamb Farm
Mansfield, PA

"Growing quality lambs, diligent hands, and grateful hearts"
2026.04.26

06/13/2026

We had mentioned that we are introducing creep feed, which is a first for us as of 2026.

It pencils nicely in theory, but one challenge for us was figuring out how to do it in a truly mobile configuration, across some uneven and hilly terrain.

This is our first attempt.

It is not doing us any good just yet...

PA Lamb Farm
Mansfield, PA 16933

"Growing quality lambs, diligent hands, and grateful hearts"

We purchased this Katahdin x Dorper ewe ( #1028) in the fall of 2016. **She is ten years old.** It did not take long ...
06/09/2026

We purchased this Katahdin x Dorper ewe ( #1028) in the fall of 2016.

**She is ten years old.**

It did not take long for us to realize how well-suited this cross is for this environment & management system. We then introduced White Dorper genetics more broadly across our Katahdins (while also preserving some pure Katahdin lines).

SCREENSHOT 1: At 10 years of age, on May 12, 2026, ewe #1028 birthed triplets.

SCREENSHOT 2: As of June 8, 2026, #1028 and her triplets are doing superbly, on grass alone. Her body condition is fantastic, her udder is even and well suspended, and the lambs are growing well and evenly.

Sidenotes:

A. These notes are from a dedicated flock text group, which makes it quick and easy to make field notes, and to search animal histories or lamb parentage in the field (by eartag number).

B. We began to introduce creep feed about a week ago, which is new as of this year for our program. We expect to share more later about our reasoning and learnings. But to this point, we have not gotten any lambs to consume the creep mix. Neither this dam nor these lambs have received protein or energy supplementation.

Here is a visual of our flock's harvest-efficiency on ground that we manage for a landowner. Zoom in to see the grass v...
06/03/2026

Here is a visual of our flock's harvest-efficiency on ground that we manage for a landowner.

Zoom in to see the grass volume where the flock has just been moved, versus prior days' paddocks in the foreground.

As compared to stocking for longer periods of time, daily moves have the following benefits for the land:

1) Fertilizer/excrement is widely distributed across new areas each day, instead of being concentrated in one area where a flock might otherwise repeatedly congregate.

2) Plant species are grazed more evenly due to increased animal competition. Less selective-grazing occurs; the less-desirable plants are grazed along with the more desirable species.

3) Over-grazing is prevented. Over-grazing is defined by the Noble Research Institute as "the repeated grazing of a plant before it has fully recovered from a previous grazing event." Appropriate grazing is good for grasses and forbs, but they need time to recover between grazing events.

4) Divinely-designed interactions are promoted, such as those between plant roots mycorrhizal fungi. These interactions work to build healthy soils.

PA Lamb Farm
Mansfield, PA

"Growing quality lambs, diligent hands, and grateful hearts"

2026.05.31 photo date

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